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Cracking The Code: Cloudonomics and 2010 Planning for your.

Cracking the Code

Cloudonomics and 2010 Planning for your SaaS and Cloud Computing business. As we get close to the end of the year, I thought it would be interesting to put together a post on how to approach the 2010 planning. ► 2010. (5). State of the SaaS 13: Q1 2010 Sentiment. Happy New Year 2010! ► 02/20 - 02/27. (1).

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Lessons Learned: The three drivers of growth for your business.

Startup Lessons Learned

Master of 500 Hats: Startup Metrics for Pirates (SeedCamp 2008, London) This presentation should be required reading for anyone creating a startup with an online service component. He also has a discussion of how your choice of business model determines which of these metric areas you want to focus on. Choose one.

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Using Cohort Analysis for Conversion Optimization

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The class of 2010 is a cohort, because every student in the group graduated in 2010. As the above chart shows, we can compare the average income of the class of 2010 and 2011 over the same relative interval (5 years after graduation) for an apple-to-apples comparison. Will this cohort help me improve that metric?”.

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Marching through quicksand

Startup Lessons Learned

Despite all the energy invested in talking to authors about the size of their platform, very few gatekeepers have a rigorous set of metrics for measuring it. The problem is that there are no other metrics they can look at to judge the content of a book to know if it’s worth reviewing. Is that a lot? In that I see opportunity.

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Lessons Learned: Validated learning about customers

Startup Lessons Learned

Every board meeting, the metrics of success change. Products can find sources of validation with impressive stats along a number of dimensions, such as high engagement, viral coefficient, or long-term retention. Time-to-complete-a-sale is not a bad metric for validated learning at this stage.

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Lessons Learned on Mashable today

Startup Lessons Learned

The core of the article is my first attempt to articulate the key metrics (in graph form) that I believe demonstrate customer value. Retention cohort analysis. Startup Visa update ► February (5) Kiwi lean startup + Australia next Why diversity matters (the meritocracy business) Beware of Vanity Metrics (for Harvard Business Rev.

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The Steps of the Recruiting Process … and How to Identify Failure Points

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by Dr. John Sullivan May 10, 2010, 12:16 am ET. Common reason for failure: no metric or feedback mechanism to measure the percentage of applications that were routed to the wrong job. Common reason for failure: no metric or periodic testing to determine the accuracy of the screening process. Browse Articles by Tag. advertising.

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